A quick shout out to everyone who contributes to or links to this joint. I knew we'd double our pageviews a few months ago. I'm glad to see it come to fruition.
Good job and thanks for making this a great hangout.

Couldn't agree more. In the decade plus that we've been doing this site, I've contemplated walking away a number of times... but the ramping up of our traffic over the last couple of years - and this year specifically - makes it all worthwhile.

Pretty steady rise from the start, minus a couple of bumps - 2008 was the year I wrote and implemented v3 (the current version of the site), we lost a lot of SEO juice when that happened because I didn't immediately put rewrite rules into place on the server to cover the URL format change. That got fixed in early 2009. For those of you that don't want to do the math, we'll have a cumulative total pages served at just over 8.3 million by the end of the year, going back to 2002 when the site moved from a Blogger 1-sheet to postNuke.

Couldn'ta done it without you and the rest of the staff, amigo. Much respect and thanks! I wish I could say there was a big pile of ad loot to split up with everyone, but I think the adsense balance is about 17 bucks, the e-cig express balance is about 14 bucks, and amazon is like a dollafiddy. Not enough to even cash out at any of 'em. In imaginary dave world, though - you guys all get a 50% raise and frozen ham!

Awesome! I post stuff here because I think more people should see it. If that in turn spreads beyond our meager borders, then it validates my opinion and gives me warm fuzzies of participation in the vast webring of link blogs.